Usually means: Fear of cancer or carcinomas.
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  1. carcinophobia: Wiktionary
  2. carcinophobia: Dictionary.com
  3. Carcinophobia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  4. carcinophobia: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  5. carcinophobia: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. carcinophobia: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  4. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. carcinophobia: Medical dictionary

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  1. Carcinophobia: The Phobia List

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Definitions from Wiktionary (carcinophobia)

▸ noun:  Inordinate dread of contracting cancer.

Similar:
carcinomatophobia, cardiophobia, nosophobia, pathophobia, selenophobia, phthisiophobia, tuberculophobia, odynophobia, carinogenesis, cholerophobia, more...

Opposite:
carcinophilia, carcinophilic, carcinophilous

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Similar:
carcinomatophobia, cardiophobia, nosophobia, pathophobia, selenophobia, phthisiophobia, tuberculophobia, odynophobia, carinogenesis, cholerophobia, more...

Opposite:
carcinophilia, carcinophilic, carcinophilous



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